In a previous question we discussed the pros and cons of relying exclusively on NetApp snapshots for backups. I now find myself in this situation as our aging legacy Symantec BackupExec tape server ...

In a Netapp with a snapmirror relationship to another Netapp in 7-mode, what are my options of checking replication performance through Data Ontap? We upgraded the link and want to know how snapmirror ...

I'm working on retiring a failing NetApp cluster. It offers iCSCI, NFS, and CIFS volumes to the network. For CIFS, we're fairly under control there. It's a limited set of shares, and there's recent ...

I have a big problem with my FAS2020 (configured as iScsi storage for 2 esxi 4 server).
I couldn't ping the 2 ip address of the FAS so I connect by the serial port with putty for monitoring the boot ...

i'm running esxi 5.5u2 standalone with 3 datastores , (local , netapp (nfs) and synology (nfs )
There are two Gigabit network adapters configured. One per vswitch.
One for storage and the other for ...

As I got a NetApp that was configured by somebody else I observed that all volumes do have quotas on them and due to this it seems that very often we end-up with problems because someone forgets to ...

I have a new NetApp Ontap cluster, and I'm trying to figure out how to document procedures for using it within my organization. It has a cluster name (netapp-cm, creative, I know), and I've allocated ...

How can I manage the system files on a filer or vFiler in Netapp? There are a couple of really important system files in every filer that it's really only feasible to manage by hand. While there are ...

I am working with a user in my organization who recently had her mailbox contents restored and now is unable to add entries to her autocompletion list.
We are all using Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 ...

I've got a requirement to use vfilers and ipspaces to segregate network traffic to a NetApp filer in a multi-tenancy environment.
Unfortunately, most of it has already been implemented and designed, ...

I would like to modify permissions on a number of NetApp CIFS shares (over 100). These are user shares and each share has a different user with "Change" share permission, this permission now needs to ...

I have a bunch of (old) NetApp DS14MK2 disks arrays with Fibre Channel connections.
I wouldn't use them to anything critical, but instead of throwing them out, could I use each of them as a separate ...

We have two old NetApp FAS3050 filers at our colo. We also have an upcoming maintenance window that will take our circuits offline for an extended period of time. Our circuits are pretty much maxed ...

Our shop relies very heavily on NetApp Volume Snapshots for backups. We use traditional agent-based tape backups for some of our data but by and large we rely on the Snapshots for the majority of our ...

It seems the NetApp dropped the web interface support some time ago and now they require you to instal and run SystemManager, which happens to be a webserver running on localhost.
It seems that their ...

I need a network file system that can be accessed from multiple machines as the same time and that it will still be able to keep like 100.000 subdirectories of a single directory.
In case someone is ...

We have a volume serving up CIFS data, which seems to have a lot more snapshot data than the rest. I suspect that this is due to a higher rate of change, and that I could determine this using the snap ...